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Dendroscope - An interactive viewer for large phylogenetic
trees
Researchers studying phylogenetic relationships need software that is
able to visualize trees efficiently,
increasingly of large datasets involving hundreds of thousands of taxa.
The program should be user friendly
(easy to run on all popular operating systems), facilitate interactive
browsing
and editing the trees and allow one to export
the result in multiple file formats in publication quality.
We have developed the platform independent tree viewer Dendroscope
that addresses these issues.
Feature List:
- large trees with hundreds of thousands of taxa can be
easily
displayed, browsed and edited;
- novel magnifiying features for zooming detailed views (see screenshots);
- search functionality to search trees with regular
expressions;
- subtrees can be collapsed and colored;
- all labels
(leaves/inner nodes and edges) can be edited;
- trees can be rerooted;
- four views are available: rectangular, slanted, circular
and radial view;
- input formats: Newick and Nexus and Dendroscope;
- multiple graphic export formats: .eps, .svg, .png, .jpg,
.gif, .bmp;
- platform independent (Java, installers for common operating
systems available)
Download
Use of the program is free, but we require that you cite our paper on
Dendroscope in any paper reporting on results obtained
with the help of the program.
The software is written in Java 1.4 and installers are provided for
Linux/Unix, MacOS X and Windows.
Download here.
You can test the performance of the program on the NCBI taxonomy.
Webstart
To launch the program immediately click here.
Reference and Contact
Daniel H Huson, Daniel C Richter, Christian Rausch, Tobias Dezulian,
Markus Franz and Regula Rupp.
Dendroscope: An interactive viewer for large phylogenetic trees.
BMC Bioinformatics. 2007 Nov 22;8(1):460
Reference
(Here you can find Table 1 from the
paper in case it is wrongly displayed in
the pdf or at the BMC webpage.)
If you have any comments or questions feel free to write
us an email.
You can also reach this site via: http://www.dendroscope.org
Screenshots
Same
tree - seven different
views: Rectangular Phylogram, Rectangular Cladogram, Slanted Cladogram,
Circular Phylogram, Circular Cladogram,
Radial Phylogram and Radial
Cladogram:
Part
of the NCBI taxonomy
showing Homo sapiens and his
relatives without the magnifier:
Same detail of previous tree with the magnifier turned on:
Part of a slanted cladogram
with magnifier turned off:
Same part of previous cladogram with magnifier turned on:
All labels and tree
substructures can be easily edited:
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